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This weeks lessons (week beginning 18th January)

So I don’t hassle everyone with a thing I learn everyday I have decided to do a week at a time…

Monday : Learnt how to use the Fake Call feature on my phone

Tuesday : learnt that Sgorio on S4C on 14th December officially had 0 viewers, and the Swiss shot down 11 German planes in WW2

Wednesday : Found out that SOLA stands for Specific Off-Label Approval, but havent the foggiest quite what that might mean. Also found out there is a sheep “smiley” on MSN messenger

Thursday : Alliumphobia is the fear of garlic but can be extended to include onions (I also rediscovered the recipe for a good french onion soup to keep people with this disorder away). Not convinced about Anatidaephobia but I really hope there is a fear of a duck watching you – although must be a nightmare…

Friday : Didn’t want to learn similar things on consecutive days but apparantly some cruel b*st*rd came up with aibohphobia as the fear of palindromes, making sufferers fearful of admitting to what they are fearful of, and leading them to a desperate cycle of despair and doom. Incidently Aracnophobia I think is a justified fear. Aracnophilia is surely something that is more in need of treatment.

Saturday : Found out that I need to add an extra rule to my NYR which forbids me from cheating and looking at the learn something new everyday website, that I didnt know existed until today. Also learnt the longest recorded fart was 2 minutes and 45 seconds

Sunday : Learnt how to make an origami swan

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Limerick

The sad shaving accident

I once was a man with a beard,
Which has now with regret disappeared,
I didnt take care,
And trimmed too much hair,
So I shaved it so not to look weird
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Dan’s even later morning than usual

I was inspired by Dan getting up even later than 8.20 this morning…

I think Dan should get up at 8,
He didn’t today and was late,
To add to his doom,
He had forgotten which room,
Which gave students one hell of a wait.
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Strongbow

According to the Chief Medical Killjoy for the UK I should not consume more than 1.739 (440ml) cans of strongbow per day. If cans were 765 ml it would be one of those, or 2 at 382ml.

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Pizzas

Using a cunning scientific method I have discovered the ideal thickness for pizza bases… also learnt that it has been 9 years since sunderland scored at stamford bridge, so they can at least take some satisfaction from their 7-2 loss

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New Year Resolution still intact…

Even tho I didnt get to put down yesterdays thing I learnt, I did actually learn that Barnaby the Bear that I saw in the 70s is actually called Colargol. It is something that I think I should have known really, and is a slightly nicer name than Barnaby.

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Limerick

Campaign for the Moog to achieve more recognition

My waste of time at the moment has inspired limerick 3 and particularly despite it impressing me in many ways not being able to guess the moog of Doyley Woods (there again was the moog 100% dog or some sort of doglike crossbreed?)

There’s a site akinator dot com,
That can guess famous names with aplomb,
The engine Percy is there,
As is Paddington Bear,
But when the character’s the Moog it will bomb
http://wtw.tarka.org/moog.html
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Nokia Alerts

I only today realised the old nokia ring alert was morse code for SMS. I also learnt a bit about how trampolining competitions work, and that you can have 2 minutes bouncing around before you do your routine. Along with the existence of akinator.com* it has been a successful day…

* so far it has identified, benitez, Paddington bear, Vlad the impaler, Iggle Piggle, Fireman Sam, Percy the green Engine, Sam Fox and Peter O’Toole

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facebook maths

It is possible to put mathematical symbols in facebook and it has taken until today for me to find out how… but I have and so I am able to ∫ both my geek sides
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749781

Excitingly the 749781 th digit is where my date of birth (in dd/mm/yy format) first occurs in the number π (or the 749780 th decimal place). The first date of birth as far as I can tell after a cheeky couple of ciders is 23rd of july 1981 (or 1881, 1781 etc) ie. 230781, 64 digits in.

Incidently when typing 749781 into an sms message with predictive text my mobile came up with short?